1,000 people to death in Iran

geneva - Iran has executed over the past year nearly a thousand people, the largest number in two decades. Has stated the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Thursday.

Ahmed Shaheed,, reported a staggering increase 'in the number of executions at least until 966. He said mainly to worry about the number of minors being put to death after a crime. That there were, according to UN figures sixteen.

Many of the people who were killed had committed a drug offense. In Iran, the death penalty for possession of 30 grams of heroin or cocaine. According Shaheed has some,, draconian punishments' in the Iranian criminal law.